Sentence examples for be a bridgehead of from inspiring English sources

They also suggested that allowing the merger would further European goals of bringing changes in the financial services sector because NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Börse had "shown themselves to be a bridgehead of integrity and transparency against a tidal wave of opacity and greed that permeates the less-regulated segments of financial markets".

Alexander believes the issue of Europe may be a bridgehead for Labour to build a stronger relationship with business so at least the voice of business will not be uniformly unwilling to support Labour as was the case in 2010 election.

Waterford city, of Norse foundation and an important port and centre of trade, was a bridgehead for the Anglo-Normans in the 12th century.

"The U.S. is a bridgehead in a global market for renewable assets," said Jonathan Johns, head of renewable energy at Ernst & Young.

Schools – and particularly female education – are seen as a bridgehead of "corrupting modernity".

"If we can use what we do to be a sort of bridgehead between ourselves and the UK film industry to work more closely with their Chinese counterparts that would just be fantastic".

Just as some opponents of Park51 have said that the $100 million-plus project will be financed by the same Saudi sheiks who bankroll terrorists, many early Protestants in the United States saw the pope as the enemy of democracy, and feared that the little church would be the bridgehead of a papal assault on the new American government.

While this might be a modest contribution in the wider context, it offers a bridgehead of principle from which progress can be made.

And it's clear that Cruz is establishing a bridgehead for the lessons of Latin America to find new relevance across what was once an unbridgeable divide.

But environmentalists fear the pipe is simply a bridgehead towards greater exploitation of the rich gas and oil fields lying beneath some of the most remote and undisturbed rainforest on Earth.

The implication of eastern North America being an invasive bridgehead, together with the absence of remote establishment and slower local spread of the population in western North America and the long history of unsuccessful biocontrol introductions of HA from its native range, jointly suggest that an evolutionary shift triggering invasion occurred in eastern North America.